The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-10-04
TaY REQUEsr.1
MY BABY.

by REQUEST.
MY BABY.
Ny baby is slipping away from me
Day by day She is going t,f .sa.
A blossom unfolding hour by hour,
Out in tie sunshine growing. essl. t.--
A greater drop II a riderrihu
In the fountains forever flowing
Aywee sweet daughter is at my knee,
FaiTeT lovier, may be-
Her eyes are bright as the nightly stars
That CLEAN Ger 'Blest Araby."
Her voice Is sweet as the voice Of love
But where is my little baby2
But four sweet years ago she came
Whit the snow in the winter weather,
And we lay apart from the stormy world,
Just she and together.
And my heart was filled with tender dreams
Of hope and loving endeayor.
All me, it seems such little time
She lay upon my breast,
A little tender, helpless thing,
But TO be hushed to rest,
And to waken again with little cries
That made me feel so bless'd
Ard now as look on my winsome girl,
With the tangles of sunny hair,
Waving above those starry eyes,
% Andthat brow so sweet and fair
3 My heart viii ask HiXt Joy and pain,
Where IS my baby-wheTel
And know that these sweet baby days
VIII shorter and shorter be.
Andsome day these little restless feet
Win wander away from me.
To seek the Wondrous fairy lands
That youth alone may see.
OH Thou whose hand bestowed this gift!
Guide her beg in prayer,
Over life's rough and thorny ways
By the hidden pit and snare.
Safe to the land by the Jasper sea,
And may meet her there
Laurel Hill, Miss. VIRGINIA L. BoNsALL
In contemplating the creation of the world,
the laws of nature, and the fitness of all things
that pertain to the regulation and control of
the universe, one can but be impressed with
the superiority of wise Creator, and it would
seem that the most skeptical would acknowl-
edge an over-ruling Providence. If we then
admit the infinite wisdom that completes the
universe, can we for moment doubt the COM
pleteness of a human life There are no in
complete lives. Every life, whether it be
short. or long, has its mission, and God does
not take it hence until it is fulfilled. We are
often staggered and our faith grows weak
when we see mother i'll her young woman
hood, surrounded by all that makes life beauti-
full, with four Or FIVE little ones dependent on
her for counsel and love, suddenly taken away
we ask.why should such a one be taken? while
there may perhaps in the same circle be one
who has almost reached the limit-''three
score and ten," and yet spared. Could the
veil be lifted we would know the reason, but
that is not intended, and we must submit,
tho we cannot with human vision recognize
the fact, yet it is still the same, that mothers
life is complete and her mission is fulfilled.
And so with young manhood, childhood and
the baby from its mothers breast; it would
seem that to them death was untimely, and
the old should die; not those in the freshness
and brightness of youth, but their lives are
complete and SO we should always believe
and trust God S wisdom, for He knows, and
we shall, when we awake in His likeness"
Beautiful thoughts have been expressed on
this subject by many, but Burdette has ex-
celled all others; he says: 81 try to measure
the plans of the infinite with my little two
foot rule. l know, as well as L know any
thing, that when God takes a soul away from
this world, in infancy, in childhood, in young
manhood, that life is complete, finished as
though it had rounded out the full orbed
years of the patriarch. 1t has done its work, it
has accomplished Gods purpose, in one year
or seventy. The little life, whose evening
time fell at noon-day or in the morning, began
q work that may be carried on for ages or was
just needed TO complete one that was begun
God knoWS-ageS ago. Such thoughts should
carry comfort to all, most especially the old
and weary pilgrims who long for rest, and
feel there is nothing left in life for them to do
to the "shut in one,'' (and oh! how many
there are) languishing on beds of suffering
waiting for the summons ''eome up higher;'
feeling themselves burden and anxiously
waiting for the dawn OF eternal day. Take
courage suffering friends, your mission is not
yet accomplished, but when it is, this lifeso
Eearisome now, win be laid down complete.
WE clipped from a Philadelphia paper a
recipe said to have been giyeHby Mrs. Cleve-
land to Washington church fair, where they
sold nothing but domestic recipes. It is only
headed Mrs. Cleyeland's Recipe" and does
not say whether it is intended for cake or a
pudding we presume the latter, but we give it
to our readers Just as written. and hope some
one viii try it and report. We acknowledge
our doubts as to its toothsoneness, but will de-
fer judgment until heard from. Our pres-
dents wife may be charming, agreeable and
beautiful woman, but as to domestic affairs
she may be novice. Mrs. Cleveland's Recipe
One bowl Indian meal, one bowl rye -four
one bowl sour milk, one large cup nolasses,
one tablespoonful soda, one tablespoonful salt
Steam two and one-half hours and bake from
twenty minutes to one-half hour, depending
upon heat of oven.
Fashion FaDcies.
Plaid ribbons are feature in the fashions of the
hour, and are abuadantly used on dresses and hats